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T. scopulicola in full bloom (tonight):

Hi, all... Just had a chinwag with an old bloke who has a super Pedro/ cordobensis, which is 35 years old. This cactus fell over in a storm, and the old fella can't do much with it, he's past caring, and hes got heart issues, so itll just stay as is. I'm gonna be helping him clean it up, in exchange for whatever of the cactus I want. So... Who wants some? I'm happy to give it away, unless people want to trade, or pay for te postage, i dont care, just happy to share. It's got yellow flowers apparently ( I always thought they were white, but who knows) buds are appearing at the moment on some of the cuts, there are heaps of mid and tip cuts. Some of it is almost 20cm thick, it's big and old. Ill be getting these this week, whatever others/I don't want will be going in the green waste that is coming up. Please let me know of you want some in this thread, I'll try to assist where possible.

My columnar's are just starting to form flower buds here in Sydney. Please everyone else show off your plants I would love to see them. In the mean time check out these :D T. Scops T. Pachanoi Polaskia Chichipe T.Thelogonus T. Cordobensis (Super Pedro)

This could be the future of gambling. Aya betting circles

Validus starting to bud

After 3 years of cactus caring ive finally got my first flower on this beautiful Super Pedro

eileen bud earlier this summer Huanucoensis buds earlier this summer Juuls Giant buds pic taken on 5/30/12 T pachanoi 'Kimnach' buds 5/30/12 Kimnach flowers pic taken 9/9 (notice tip growth from buds to flowers!) Lumberjack bud (SS02 x SS01) on the left, colossus on the right peruvianus buds SS02 X SS01 buds pic taken on 5/30 SS02 X SS01 flowers pic taken 6/20 (same plant as a above) This plant is still producing buds & flowers, as is the peruvianus. Seeds still available for all the crosses.

HI Everyone, I had this funny dream last night which made me think that I would like to go on another SAB Camp. Nothing too fancy, just a few nights away somewhere within reasonable driving distance from the ACT. camp fires, totem tennis, inflatable paddling pools and a few laughs. anyone interested?

If it's for personal storage, I would suggest you clean them thoroughly, dry them and dip them in anti-fungal powder, put them in little plastic zip-lock baggies and in a little envelope with 1/ their full botanic name, including commercial or common name 2/ date collected if you know it, or date received, perhaps the date of storage too if significantly different, 3/ location collected or source, name of the collector, any other info e.g. coastal, sun / shade, elevation 4/ how many plants provided the seeds if you know this (useful for genetic diversity) and store them in the dark at about 4 degrees C. Buy a fridge if you can.

I saw the snow lotus at around 5.000m altitude in the indian himalaya (Ladakh, Kardung La): Saussurea medusa: or course I didn't take it...

Thank you thank you thank you, I've never been so happy to open the mail box. So shall we call it a race? hmmm, see who gets the first freaks and another prize for the most amount of freaks, maybe one for the freakiest of them all. Ur a legend Nitro!!!

i must be a goddamn genius then

In the Amazon they do

Theres logic in that, the western diet is too sterile. Beneficial and harmless microbes are the immune systems training ground (hard science has proven that) and anyway, not all molds are bad. Soy sauce is essentially liquid mold, certain molds are even eaten as medicines. When man was too primitive to preserve food we were hungry and ate rotten and fermented shit alot, when we learned to preserve food we used bacteria to help with that- even fermenting meats, we evolved for half a million years eating live microbes, its only been since the 40's or so that we've rapidly sterilized our diets. And we're only beginning to comprehend the results. It was funny the first time I got food poisoning after I started eating live bacterial cultures (it was from someones barbeque, damn other-people-food). For the first time the food poisoning pathogen didnt make it into my gut, I could feel it ramming the gates at my duodenum and my intestines were just like "HA, Bitches! This is a kimchee sauerkraut gut!" After a few hours the kimchee critters won, I wonder if they enjoyed their snack of salmonella.

Hi Alchemica, yes we will step in if somethings going there while you are away! Enjoy the Trip!

check the vein running down the center of the phyllode, it's not a floribunda, i'd say Acacia retinodes

I've been trying to germinate nettle seeds this spring and I'm having a terrible time. Don't know what's up; perhaps the viability of the seed? It's embarrassing when one has trouble germinating weeds!

We're just a mosquito bite on the elephant of time's ass. - botanika

re, thats right, and you people out there, growing the white catha dont be surprised if it forms narroleaves once the plant is old and having lots of branches... the older the grow habit,... the more the catha edulis leaves get elongated. whilst the leaves set in spiralmotion are inhibitor grow or to say are "representing upright motion". bye, bla, bla...